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Charlie Siedenburg Legendary PR Maven Retires

Leaving Barrington Stage Company After 21 Years

By: - Aug 29, 2025

As he has since 2005 Charlie Siedenburg will be on hand this weekend to hand tickets to the media for what will prove to be his final season hyping Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield. 

In addition to doing PR, in recent years he has taught theatre at the college level. He serves as Press Rep for Wagner College Theatre, The Minty Awards, Ghostlight Productions and Forestburgh Playhouse. Charlie is a 1995 Theatre/Arts Administration graduate of Wagner College on Staten Island, where he currently teaches Theatre Appreciation. In 2021, he received a Berkshire Theatre Critics Association Special Award for Exceptional Support of Arts Journalism in the Berkshires. In 2014 he was appointed an associate artist for Barrington Stage.

Students are privileged to get straight talk from a  working professional who knows the field inside out. To some extent I have been on the receiving end of his attention to detail. Shortly after posting, on occasion, I get fact checking e mails from Charlie. There have never been comments about the content of reviews. 

Overall, Charlie has presided over years of growth and triumph for theatre in the Berkshires. 

What follows  is the press release that no doubt he wrote.

Following the Opening Night performance of The Weekend, longtime BSC Press Director Charlie Siedenburg, who has served the company with distinction for the past 21 years, will be retiring.

Since joining BSC in 2005, Charlie has been an integral part of the theatre’s growth and success, helping to shape and share the company’s story with the Berkshire community and beyond. Through his vision and voice, Charlie crafted a compelling narrative of BSC as both an artistic home for world-class theatre and a welcoming hub for audiences of all backgrounds.

“Barrington Stage has been more than a workplace — it’s been a home, a family, and a true creative community,” said Siedenburg. “One of the great joys of my career has been shaping the narrative of BSC — celebrating its artists, championing its productions, and helping to tell the story of a theatre that has become such an essential part of the Berkshires. I will certainly miss the members of the Berkshire press, whose dedication, friendship and generosity in covering the arts have been vital to BSC’s success. I am deeply grateful for the extraordinary colleagues, artists, and audiences I’ve had the privilege to work with over these many years.”
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